A stamp book (which is used for pilgrims to collect
stamps of every shrine and temple they visited)
was the starting point for the piece 'wrapping'.

The journey to Japan was a personal pilgrimage:
to discover and remember visual treasures of Japan;
the store around the corner, a stamp embedded into the street pavement,
the lovingly-taken-care-for cherry trees, the entrance into a family house.

In 2009 this piece was part of the exhibition "Scanning Japan" at the Reed Whipple Cultural Art Center, Las Vegas, NV